NURS 355C - Nursing of Childbearing Family Clinical

2 Credits
This clinical course utilizes experiential learning for the student to provide nursing care for the childbearing family. Special emphasis will be placed on the care of prenatal, laboring, postpartum, and newborn clients. Students will incorporate concepts of family planning, the reproductive process, fetal development, intrapartum maternal changes, and the use of the clinical judgment model to develop and implement plans of care across the health continuum. The focus of the course is on the use of clinical judgment to provide safe, evidence-based, person-centered care to childbearing families. NURS 355C requires 90 hours of clinical practice for the semester.

Grade Note(s): A grade of B- or better is required to pass this course successfully.
Fees: Additional course fees apply.
Component Co-requisite(s): NURS 355 and NURS 355C.The lecture, lab (L) and clinical (C) components of each NURS course must be successfully completed during the same semester. All component co-requisites must be repeated if a failing grade is received in any one of them.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 334, NURS 334L and NURS 334C
Co-requisite(s): NURS 370L